Shipping INTELLIGENCE & Weather Disabled Steering Gear and Fire Aorangi's Voyage to Suva
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 September 1928 · page 17
SUVA, Friday. -- On the trip from Honolulu to Suva the steering gear of the Aorangi was put out of action for a time, owing to the breaking of a piston rod, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Shot Down in Busy City Street Gunman Fires Youth Dying---police Puzzled
The Sun · Sunday 9 September 1928 · page 2
Shot down last night by a gunman in sight of the busily moving throngs in Rawson place, city, Leslie Grano, aged 21, of Bathurst street, city, was admitted to Sydney Hospital in a critical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flat-Dwellers Trapped in Courtyard While Fire Rages Locked in London Fire Havoc 200 Homeless London
The Sun · Sunday 9 September 1928 · page 1
One of the most disastrous fires in London in many years broke out at midnight in a large timber yard at Vauxhall, on the south bank of the river Thames,in the borough of Lambeth…
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The Sun · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 13
With an unenviable record in the matter of fires having experienced two in less than two years; the British- India steamer Janus arrived in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hierarchy Honored. Govt. House Garden Party Magnificent Blaze of Color
Evening News · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 9
THE garden party given at Government House to-day, in honor of the Papal Legate. Cardinal Cerretti, and other distinguished figures at the Eucharistic Congress, was one of the most brilliant functions in Sydney's social calender…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Fire Station at Concord
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 8
A new fire station is to be erected in Concord-road, Concord, immediately at a cost of £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Weird Sight Fire in Tunnel London
Evening News · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 1
AN unusual fire occurred underneath the Thames Embankment last night when an electric light cable, carried in a tuned under the footpath, fused…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle, Sunday, Woman Injured at Fire
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 16
While trying to save furniture from a fire which destroyed her three-roomed house at Ladysmith, near West Wallsend, yesterday, Mrs. Tonkin suffered severe burns to the arms…
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 6
In reply to Holroyd Council's request for the establishment of a voluntary fire brigade at Girraween, the Fire Commissioners regretted that they could not…
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Evening News · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 10
ACCORDING to a message received by the Sydney Marino Unders[?] Association to-day the [?], which has been raging on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Just in Time Constable Saves Sleeping Family from Fire
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 4
But for the timely warning of Constable Barton, Jesse Mandel and his wife probably would have been burned to death in their pawnbrokers' shop in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Balmain. Four People Menaced. Leap From Burning Building
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 18
With the ordinary means of egress cut off by flames, the four occupants of a dwelling above a shop at Balmain were obliged to jump from the front verandah of the premises on…
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The Sun · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 2
Grenfell, Tuesday.--A largely attended meeting decided to form a bush fire brigade throughout the district. Representatives from each shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extensive Damage. Castlemoor Fire
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 5
Arriving at Albany at midnight on Friday last, with a heavy list and two holds ablaze, the steamer Castlemoor was beached at Deepwater pier…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 13
Bums, Philp, and Co., Limited, agents for the BI.S.N. Co., announce that a general average has been declared on cargo by the Janus loaded prior to the fire at Calcutta,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 12
The Lane Cove ferry steamer Lady Edeline, when about to land passengers at Goat Island about 10.30 o'clock last night, ran aground about 400 feet to the westward of the wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →BEACHED. Steamer Castlemoor. Fight with Fire. Cargo of English Coal Perth
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 11
With an alarming list and two holds full of burning coal, the steamer Castlemoor entered Princess Royal Harbour, Albany, early on Saturday morning. The vessel is conveying…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →85,000 See Baseball Game Raid Roofs, Fire Escapes and Telegraph Poles
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 27
NEW YORK, Monday.--Baseball crowds soared to a new record on Sunday when over 85,000 paid to see Yankees twice defeat Philadelphia Athletics 5-0 and 7-3…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 5
Matches thrown carelessly into the dry grass are believed to have caused most of the bush fires that occurred in the suburbs yesterday…
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The Sun · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 12
The fire on the Castlemoor, which was bringing coal from England for the South Australian Government, when it caught alight in the South…
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